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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Saturday, September 6, 2003 2:18:06 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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.vimrc is the file that is executed by default by the text editor Vim upon startup. It is generally a good idea to put a .vimrc in your home directory with some useful setting in it.
There are a whole host of useful settings, but a few common ones follow:
- set nocompatible " Make Vim behave less like vi and more like Vim - this makes vim a lot easier to user
- syntax on " Syntax highlight whatever language you are editing, Vim supports many languages
- set incsearch " Enable incremental searching by default
- set showmatch " Highlight the matches of the last search
+ set nocompatible
" Make Vim behave less like vi and more like Vim - this makes vim a lot easier to user
+ syntax on
" Syntax highlight whatever language you are editing, Vim supports many languages
+ set incsearch
" Enable incremental searching by default
+ set showmatch
" Highlight the matches of the last search
+ set backspace=2 " allow backspacing over everything in insert mode
+ set autoindent " always set autoindenting on
+ set textwidth=0 " Don't wrap words by default
+ " Vim5 comes with syntaxhighlighting. The next lines turn it on
+ if has("syntax")
+ syntax on
+ endif
+
+vimrc is also capable of on-the-fly [gzip] and bzip2 (de)compression.
